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Wanting

Angela Huth

Harry Antlers a once successful theatre director falls obsessively in love with Viola Windrush when she comes to New York for an audition. He immediately sends her a hundred red roses and convinces himself that her lack of response is purely temporary. He is certain that if he makes enough extravagant and expensive gestures she will be his. There follows a wild pursuit which takes Harry to Viola's beautiful old Norfolk house and to London where she is decorating a flat for her uncle. Finally Harry is driven to desperation ...The curious psychology of the obsessive is very cleverly drawn for the reader can see all too clearly what Harry himself cannot -that his feelings are more those of a thwarted child than of an ardent suitor. WANTING's support characters come vividly to life: Mr Baxter who caretakes Viola's Norfolk home; Gideon Viola's brother who leaves his glamorous and mercenary New York mistress to return to Norfolk where a young woman who has loved him since her youth hopefully awaits him; Edwin Hardley the moth scholar known as Hardly There ...

  • Classification : General & Literary Fiction
  • Pub Date : NOV 2, 2000
  • Imprint : Abacus
  • Page Extent : 236
  • Binding : PB
  • ISBN : 9780349114156
  • Price : INR 520
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Angela Huth

Angela Huth has written thirteen novels and four collections of short stories as well as plays for radio TV and the stage. She adapted two of her earlier novels for the BBC: Virginia Fly is Drowning and Sun Child. Land Girls was made into the 1998 feature film Land Girls starring Rachel Weisz and Anna Friel. She is also a well-known freelance journalist critic and broadcaster. Angela is married to a don lives in Warwickshire (in the 67th house she looked at) and has two daughters.

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